Snowflake CEO on Winning the AI Arms Race

In this episode of The MAD Podcast, Matt Turck interviews Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake, about the evolution of Snowflake from its IPO to its current status as an AI Data Cloud. Sridhar discusses Snowflake's early success in cloud-centric analytics and data sharing, its expansion into native applications, and its shift towards becoming an AI and data platform. The conversation covers technical topics like AI agents and Iceberg, entrepreneurial lessons from Sridhar's time at Niva, and strategic insights into winning in the competitive data and AI market. Sridhar also shares his views on the state of search, the importance of data strategy for AI, and Snowflake's approach to building its own models versus partnering with others.